With respect to its global equity investments, the Fund may invest in common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities, depositary receipts, warrants to buy common stocks, and underlying funds.
With respect to its global fixed income investments, the Fund may invest in bank obligations, convertible securities, U.S. government securities (including agencies and instrumentalities), asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed and mortgage-related securities (which may include securities that are issued by non-governmental entities), domestic and foreign corporate bonds, high yield securities (junk bonds), loan assignments and participations (Loans), debt obligations issued or guaranteed by a foreign sovereign government or its agencies, authorities or political subdivisions, floating rate securities, inflation-indexed bonds and inflation-linked securities such as Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and underlying funds.
The Fund's alternative investments may include individual securities, underlying funds, and exchange traded notes (ETNs). The investments in this asset class may give the Fund exposure to: market neutral strategies, long/short strategies, merger arbitrage strategies, real estate (including real estate investment trusts (REITs)), currencies and commodities. The Fund may also invest in derivatives, which are instruments that have a value based on another instrument, exchange rate or index. The Fund may use derivatives, such as futures contracts, options and forwards, to more effectively gain targeted equity and fixed income exposure from its cash positions, to hedge investments, for risk management and to attempt to increase the Fund's gain. For example, the Fund may utilize exchange traded futures and options to gain exposure to, or to overweight or underweight its investments among, the various asset classes and for interest rate risk management to adjust the duration position of the Fund. The Fund may also use exchange traded futures for cash management purposes. Forward currency transactions may be utilized to hedge exposure to non-dollar investments back to the U.S. dollar. Futures and options used to adjust the duration position of the Fund are not subject to or included as part of the Fund's stated fixed income ranges. Underlying funds in which the Fund may invest may also use derivatives.
The Fund may enter into short sales. In short selling transactions, the Fund sells a security it does not own in anticipation of a decline in the market value of the security. To complete the transaction, the Fund must borrow the security to make delivery to the buyer. The Fund is obligated to replace the security borrowed by purchasing it subsequently at the market price at the time of replacement. The underlying funds in which the Fund may invest may also enter into short sales.
The Fund is not a target date fund that follows a "glidepath" in which the mix of investments among asset classes becomes more conservative over time according to a predetermined path. Rather, the Fund's allocations among asset classes will vary from year to year and may become more conservative or more aggressive in any given year based upon the Adviser's annual review, but without regard to any particular shareholder's behavior.
Because it is assumed that shareholders will be spending down amounts invested in the Fund each year until the maturity date, the Fund's assets are expected to decline over time and approach zero on the maturity date, at which time it is expected that the Fund will be liquidated. The Adviser anticipates that the sample spend down amount will increase as a percentage of a
shareholder's investment in the several years immediately preceding the maturity date and that the sample spend down amount will be 100% of a shareholder's investment in the year 2055. As a result, the Fund and the sample spend down amount may be less useful for those who invest closer to the maturity date.
The sample spend down amount is not expected to be level from year to year and instead will likely vary each year based upon changes in the underlying considerations noted above. The long-term risk and return targets of the Fund in any given year, including any income and gain from investments earned by the Fund, is not designed to be equal to or greater than the sample spend down amount for such year. This means that if you choose to follow the sample spend down amount, you will likely be redeeming shares and your investment in the Fund will be reduced. The sample spend down amount assumes the reinvestment of distributions in additional shares of the Fund. As a result, if distributions are not reinvested, following the sample spend down amount without adjusting for distributions not reinvested will increase the likelihood that a shareholder will (i) have insufficient shares for redemption in future years and (ii) exhaust his or her assets in the Fund prior to the maturity date. The sample spend down amount is not designed to comply with any required minimum distribution rules applicable to tax-deferred retirement accounts nor does it take into account any tax considerations to shareholders (including, for example, any early withdrawal penalties that may be imposed on shareholders in tax-deferred retirement accounts). Shareholders investing through a tax-deferred retirement account subject to a required minimum distribution who redeem shares of the Fund from such account will need to include such redemption amount, as appropriate, in the computation of any annual required minimum distribution. Many of the assumptions and factors upon which the sample spend down amount will be based are the result of estimates and judgment calls by the Adviser. If those assumptions and factors are inaccurate or incomplete, the sample spend down amount may not accurately reflect the amount that a shareholder could redeem during the year while still allowing for redemptions in future years. Shareholders should not consider the Fund as a complete solution for his or her investment or retirement income needs or as a guarantee of income. In making a decision about your investment in the Fund in your individual situation, or in assessing the adequacy of estimated distributions that you may receive at any particular time, you should consider all of your other assets, income and investments in addition to your investment in the Fund.
The provision of a sample spend down amount is for the purpose of outlining a possible theoretical course of action. The sample spend down amount is a generic hypothetical example as of a specific calculation date that does not consider, nor is it based upon, a shareholder's specific circumstances including his or her age, financial needs, risk tolerance, required minimum distribution amount under the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any year, if any, other assets and overall investment objectives. No suggestion is offered herein that any particular redemption amount is advisable under the circumstances outlined in the sample spend down amount, and, more generally, there is no recommendation herein regarding any particular course of conduct in any particular situation or with respect to any particular shareholder. The sample spend down amount does not constitute and is not intended to constitute a suggestion, recommendation or impartial advice of any kind.